The Industry

Top Articles of 2012

• January

  • A Look at Lettercase App by Micah Rich
  • An Interview with Miguel Endara: The Artist Behind the Viral ‘Hero’ Video
  • An Interview With James McDonald: UI/UX Designer from Scotland
  • A Sneak Peek at Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Upgrade Offerings for CS3 and CS4 users
  • Rogie King’s Fine Goods Market Launches

• February

  • PSD Meet Browser Part 1: psd.js
  • Finally, A Photoshop Grid Built for Responsive Web Design
  • A Review of Wunderkit
  • Design Your 'How'
  • INDUSTRY ASKS: You make websites too? What editor do you use?

• March

  • Caffeinated: The Beautiful Google Reader Client
  • FLUD: How Two Small Design Changes Tripled User Engagement
  • Sparrow for iPhone: A talk with its designer, Jean-Marc Denis
  • Design Your ‘How’: Set Three Goals
  • Dropbox shows what hacking is all about

• April

  • Designers wanted: Dribbble makes $80,000 from job posting board last quarter
  • Google Rolls Out Google+ Redesign, And It Looks Great
  • Squarespace 6: A Look into the Private Beta
  • Steering Pacific Helm — A Quick Interview with Louie Mantia
  • The “Greif” has launched his eBook, Step by Step UI Design

• May

  • Snipt – Long term memory for coders
  • 7 Days with Sketch 2
  • Helvetica Superheroes, Seriously
  • Data Visualization – The secret’s now out!
  • Morgan Allan Knutson is Moving to Dropbox

• June

  • Apple’s Podcast app – a UI breakdown and comparison
  • 7 Days with Coda 2
  • Pictos 4 and Outlines released
  • An interview with Bjango’s Marc Edwards
  • Twitter’s New Logo – An Analysis

• July

  • An Interview with Tim Van Damme of Instagram
  • Squarespace 6: The Review
  • .Mail – Redesigning Email
  • Mountain Lion: The Roarin’ Thundah Review
  • Dash for Mac – Enjoy spending time with your code

• August

  • Dropbox’s Onboarding Brilliance
  • Retina Mac Apps: Not a Review, But a Site
  • 3 Tools for Testing Responsive Web Designs
  • An Interview with Shaun Inman
  • Microsoft Resurgent

• September

  • You’re Young. I’m 18. So what?
  • Subtle UI changes in iOS 6 and the case for the blue status bar
  • iPhone 5 – From a Designer’s Point of View
  • Why We Should All Learn a Little Code: Answer and Infographic
  • A Look at The Past: Original Designs of Top Websites

• October

  • Space Box: How I turned Stripe into Paypal in 5 Days
  • App Design Paradigms
  • Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Business
  • Execute: A Book on Executing Ideas Immediately
  • Rdio vs. Spotify Unpacked Part 1/2

• November

  • Rdio 2.0 for iOS
  • iTunes 11: the convergence of iOS and OS X design
  • Facebook app UI through the years
  • The Well-Documented, Un-Experienced Life
  • Hammer for Mac lets you build static HTML sites, minus the fuss

• December

  • Gestures as a New Dimension in Mobile Design
  • Kicksend 3.0 Sets Itself Apart in Photo Sharing
  • Mixture: The Web Developer’s Life Just Got Easier
  • Twitterrific 5 for iOS: A design review
  • POP: Turn Your Paper Mockups into Working Prototypes

Top Podcast Episodes of 2012

• #22: The launch of iPhone 5, startups making money, branding roots and herding Llamas
• #19: Muting distractions, Square can kill PayPal, attack of the acqui-hires and our thoughts on Medium
• #21: Artists gotta get paid, Connectivity is killing us, Live Tools and eBay loves hipsters
• #20: Twitter WAT R U doing?! Design to sell, Microsoft the underdog, Bootstrap/Foundation
• #17: The art of wireframing, a new messaging protocol, Mountain Lion and rocking the baby!
• #13: Building things that matter, be a design professional, the rise of Octopress and getting Vested
• #18: 100,000 listens! Starbucks to Square up, Apple vs Samsung and Dropbox vs iCloud
• #8: Adobe, HTML5Rocks, Dialoggs invites and making Cheddar
• #14: Retina all the things, Octicons, Pictos 4, Foundation 3 and the new Twitter logo
• #16: Redesigning .Mail, Tweetbot for Mac, OUYA to disrupt gaming and CodePen launches beta
• #15: Just us, Kickfunding your peers, natural passion and our thoughts on the new Rdio design
• #12: Industry survey, Facebook Camera and stock value, Meteor gets 9M, UK Government Design Principles

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Thanks

From The Industry Team

We couldn't have become so awesome without you. Thank you.
Jared

Thank you to everyone who made this stellar first year possible. Thank you for reading. Thank you for sharing.
Drew